As WCBS 880’s Monica Miller reported, the sound of church bells and the smell of mulch have replaced the buzzing generators and fire smoke that came from a makeshift tent set up at Cedar Grove Park for displaced residents.

“It was – you got to see the people that you would see every day,” one woman told Miller.

Mike Hoffman co-founded Yellow Boots to help rebuild Staten Island. He said it only makes sense that they’re holding the Timberland Day of Community Service on the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

“9/11, I was actually at the towers when it hit and I actually was in part of the rescue effort,” Hoffman told Miller.